Can I force my Voodoo2 graphic accelerator to display 2D?
I need that because of movies and such.
You can use Voodoomovie to play movies on the V2, get it here :
http://www.falconfly.de/tools.htm
On Win2000/XP you could also try the Legendgrafx driver.
Just do a forum search here...
You can also use MPlayer for Win32 (MPF 0-19-0 recommended: http://mpf.dzm.hu/) put MesaGL in the same directory than mplayer.exe and in the command line or in the additional parameters of MPF put "-vm -screenw 640 -screenh 480 -bpp 16 -vo gl2" (or if you have two monitors use "-x 640 -y 480 -vo gl2" for have access to your desktop and see the video at the same time) if you have slow redendering additionally put "-vf scale=x/2:y/2,framestep=1 -sws 1" (where x, y are the width and height of the video) check the checkboxes Fullscreen, Doublebuffer and Direct rendering, uncheck Image post-processing and change MPlayer priority to high, the 3dfx logo creates a horrible delay with a cracking sound at startup so add a DWORD key "FX_GLIDE_NO_SPLASH=1" to your "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\3dfx Interactive\Voodoo2\Glide" to disable that splash screen you can also add it like a Environment variable with "SET FX_GLIDE_NO_SPLASH=1", tweak the options to your preferences and enjoy. ;-)
I tried this tool,and now I see movies very well..but how do I now if it is using my voodoos?Well..I think the voodoos are being used because in my mmx200 seeing moveis was almost impossible..
forget..I was doin it wrong...But it is amazing how this program makes my old ati graphics pro turbo run the movies so good..